FAITH-BASED MARKETING: ANTECEDENTS OF PURCHASE INTENTION FOR HALAL-CERTIFIED PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS

The purpose of this research was to find out the factors influencing consumer’s purchase intention toward halalcertified personal care products. The factors influencing consumer’s purchase intention investigated in this study were religiosity, halal awareness, halal certification, personal societal perception, and halal marketing. This research is a quantitative research with questionnaire as the instrument to gather the data and was scored using the Likert Scale and analyzed with multiple regression on SPSS 24. This research was conducted in the Greater Jakarta area with a total of 309 respondents. The results of this research showed that religiosity and halal awareness had no significant influence toward purchase intention for halal-certified personal care products. Additionally, personal societal perception, halal certification, and halal marketing were found to have significant influences toward purchase intention of halal-certified personal care products. Finally, all the variables had simultaneously significant influence on purchase intention of halal-certified personal care products. The results of this study could provide companies with a valuable insight regarding the importance of and urgency for halal-certifying their personal care products to improve customer’s purchase intention, and to set their marketing strategy accordingly.